Congress Passes Opioid Bill That Ignores Pain Patients (Again)

On September 17, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (OCRA) by a vote of 99 to 1. A similar bill passed the House in June. Like many other bills of its type, OCRA fails to adequately address either addiction or the needs of chronic pain patients. Amidst an opioid abuse ...Read More

Coming Soon! There are no marathons for chronic pain, no walks for its cure. Yet chronic pain disables some 25% of the population in developed countries such as Canada and the U.S.A. This is no small disease. In Canada, chronic pain costs the economy an estimated 60 billion annually in treatment, lost wages and productivity; ...Read More